Chapter 491: Chapter 491

“This is really incredible…”

Yoo Baek, standing in front of the pavilion, caught his breath. The chill felt from inside was excessive to say the least. He wondered if anyone trapped in such a place could possibly survive.

Thinking that this was the power of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal, which was only passed down in legends, Yoo Baek felt an unnecessary fear creeping in and unconsciously had the thought of running away.

“I don’t know if we’ll turn into a block of ice the moment we enter.”

Cheon Mu-gwang, who spat, frowned.

The spit he spat out turned into ice before long.

It was a situation that was still bearable, but if they opened the door and entered, it would be a battle against time from then on.

If they couldn’t protect their bodies properly using their inner power, it made him wonder if they could withstand even a split second, let alone the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

Perhaps no one could have found this place if it hadn’t been for Ryu Tae-seo. That was how excessively strong the power of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal had become.

The three people exchanged glances.

It was understandable.

It was no different from a situation where they were going to put an end to their lives.

They might only sacrifice their lives and fail to achieve what they wanted. It was because, considering the extreme cold qi they were feeling right now, it was no exaggeration to say the probability was high.

“You’re going to do it, right?”

Cheon Mu-gwang glanced at Nam Ju-ryeon and asked.

He did not know why he was asking such a question, but it seemed like he was trying to confirm her intentions one more time.

Nam Ju-ryeon smiled faintly.

“Will you not do it if I don’t?”

“No, I’m going in anyway.”

Cheon Mu-gwang had already made up his mind.

He could do nothing about the current situation.

Since he didn’t have the power to kill that unlucky Heavenly Martial Emperor, if his life was going to be sacrificed to that fellow anyway, he thought dedicating it to Dan Woo-hyun was the best.

Letting out a sigh of ‘Huu-’, Cheon Mu-gwang looked at Yoo Baek.

He, who was thinking of something with his eyes tightly closed, as if he finished that thought, opened his eyes slowly once again and nodded.

“Then let us enter.”

Yoo Baek had no hesitation.

It was as if he considered himself to have been alive for this kind of work. Since determination dwelt in his expression and tone, it was not a situation anyone could stop.

The three people nodded at the same time.

Steel-minded, Cheon Mu-gwang grabbed the doorknob.

From the moment he grabbed it, he raised his inner power and began to protect his body himself.

“Opening it…?”

“Open it quickly, you rascal!”

Looking at Cheon Mu-gwang, who was delaying and not opening the door, Yoo Baek raised his voice. Since they were going to do it anyway, they should do it without hesitation, and he seemed to strongly dislike his hesitating.

As he frowned heavily and that voice echoed sharply, Cheon Mu-gwang smirked and opened the door.

Whoosh!

Simultaneously with opening the door, the extreme cold qi poured out. That which anyone would have no choice but to freeze instantly. It was a chill that felt like it would freeze even breath, even time.

“Ugh…!”

“Hurry and enter. And you’ll have to make sure to close the door! Otherwise, that fellow sprawled out over there will freeze to death as he is. Haha.”

At Yoo Baek’s words, Nam Ju-ryeon swallowed her breath and raised her inner power even more.

Although she was protecting her body, it was still impossible to completely block the chill that felt like it would freeze her flesh and bones.

Biting her lip tightly, she followed Yoo Baek, who stepped inside without hesitation.

At the end of the three people’s gazes lay a giant block of ice. Frozen exactly as he was swinging his sword, it was an appearance where one could not even know if he was alive or dead.

In its center, what was assumed to be the Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal was seen, and it seemed impossible to smash it from the outside in any way.

“…….”

Confirming that, Nam Ju-ryeon swallowed her bitter feelings.

Even very long ago when this kind of thing broke out, there was a time when she could do nothing. Also, when Dan Woo-hyun shattered it and appeared once again, in order to prevent this kind of thing from breaking out ever again, she had exerted that much effort to capture Cheon Mu-je.

But such effort was merely nothing more than effort.

Nam Ju-ryeon braced her heart while thinking.

‘I will surely… get you out.’

Steel-minded with that thought, she clenched her fists.

At that moment, the fierce chill began to rage even more.

“Since there is no time, do not think of delaying. What is given to us is the time to drink a cup of tea.”

Yoo Baek spoke while looking at the remaining two people.

The time they could pour in everything was the time to drink a cup of tea.

If that time passed, no matter if it was these three, they could not escape the influence of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal. Since they would draw their last breath as a block of ice without even achieving what they wanted, where would there be another useless death like that?

Nam Ju-ryeon and Cheon Mu-gwang stood in their places while nodding their heads.

The three people extended their hands toward the place where Dan Woo-hyun was trapped and began preparations.

Preparation to pour in everything they possessed.

Solemnity dwelt in their gazes.

Before long.

“Let’s begin.”

The energy of the three people began to flow, undulating.

* * *

Jang Sam-tae opened his eyes along with pain.

His head throbbed numbly, naturally making him let out groans.

“Damn it…”

Frowning, he looked around.

The moment he saw the campfire still burning blazing hot, the cold rushed in like crazy and tormented him. To feel a chill while looking at fire?

It was that much that the situation of the Zhoushan Archipelago was not good.

However, it was not the time to be thinking of other things.

Just how long had he been unconscious?

Glancing out the window, the moon was still up.

Looking at the traces of the campfire going out or burnt, he did not seem to have been unconscious for a long time.

“Those rascals!”

Jang Sam-tae stood up from his seat with a start.

He could not find the figures of Nam Ju-ryeon and Yoo Baek, including Cheon Mu-gwang. Since he realized what they were trying to do, it was time to move to dissuade them.

Suppressing the pain, he stood up from his seat with a start.

Hurriedly dressing himself, he opened the door and went outside. The extreme cold qi surged as if tormenting him even more, and now it felt like even his bones would freeze.

Only then did he recall the story Yoo Baek had told.

“You said two hours, right?”

Once that time passes, escape this place by all means.

That warning stimulated his head, but there was no reason to follow the words. In the first place, unless he took Dan Woo-hyun out, Jang Sam-tae had no thoughts of moving anywhere.

Did he not say when they first set off on this journey?

That if anyone died or could not move, they must make sure to take them along.

Jang Sam-tae had to keep those words.

For the promise with Dan Woo-hyun, and also for Dan So-mi.

Since it was even a situation where there was no guarantee that Dan Woo-hyun was dead, he wished to take him back alive, and had a desire that not a single person would die here.

He forced his steps forward, advancing toward the pavilion.

The closer he got to that place, the more severe the cold became.

Sensation of the entire body freezing.

He could not even feel such a sensation of whether he was walking or standing still, and the dripping snot froze before long, and it felt like even the saliva pooled in his mouth would become a block of ice the moment he opened his mouth.

“It’s crazy, really!”

Frowning, Jang Sam-tae cursed.

He had to take the four people out even a day faster. Since the thought that they might really all freeze to death arose, his heart began to grow a bit more urgent.

Before long, standing in front of the pavilion, Jang Sam-tae caught his breath.

Traces of the three people’s movements were seen in the surroundings, but he did not know what kind of work had broken out inside. There was no sound, and not even a human presence was felt.

That weighed heavily on his mind, pulling out even more urgency in his heart.

Letting out a sigh of ‘Huu-’, Jang Sam-tae made up his mind and grabbed the door.

But at that moment.

“Ah?!”

Touching the door itself was impossible.

An immense chill climbed up his hand. Had he not removed his fingers as they were, it was clear the chill would have swallowed Jang Sam-tae and frozen him.

“This damn thing!”

Shaking his hand, Jang Sam-tae frowned.

He had to open the door.

But since touching it was impossible, irritation surged. He struck the door using his inner power as much as possible, but the pavilion did not budge, as if something was guarding it.

Originally, Cheon Mu-je had made it to trap the Martial God.

Had it been something that would break so easily, he would not have made it.

Jang Sam-tae, who had no way of knowing such things, had to be shivering in the cold in front of the pavilion.

“What should I do?”

He did not know what kind of work was breaking out inside. Since he could not even perceive whether the three people were dead or alive, his heart kept growing more urgent.

There must be some way.

Something like that which could open this door.

Jang Sam-tae left the pavilion and began to roam the surroundings. It was to find tools that could open the door.

While roaming here and there with such thoughts, he came to see a bizarre shadow from the beach side.

“Who… is it?”

Did another person come?

It did not look like a simple beast’s shadow.

He was approaching toward the place where Jang Sam-tae was while moving here and there, and looking at that hesitation-free behavior, an unnecessary anxiety crept in.

Frowning, Jang Sam-tae slinked toward him.

“Who are you?”

He asked openly without even hiding his body.

Originally, those who could enter this place were limited. Since most of them would be people of higher level than Jang Sam-tae, there was no need to even hide his body.

Because the action of hiding itself was meaningless.

But despite clearly asking, the opponent was approaching without even answering.

The moment he confirmed that appearance revealed in the moonlight after escaping the dark shadow, Jang Sam-tae could not close his mouth as if he received a shock.

Crimson hair and pupils.

It was bizarre to the extent that one wondered if he could be seen as human. Also, the momentum emanating from his body was filled with evil, making him realize he was by no means a person who came with good intentions.

Although Jang Sam-tae was famous for his big liver, whether he could not treat him carelessly this time, he did not budge from that place.

Even opening his mouth was impossible.

And at that moment, he met eyes with the approaching man.

Although he saw Jang Sam-tae, and although he had been feeling him from the beginning, he did not care. His expression was calm, his walking steps did not stop either, and a gaze that seemed to be on guard was also not seen.

He merely walked calmly.

At that moment, Jang Sam-tae swallowed dry saliva.

Looking at the gradually closer person, he closed his eyes tightly. As if he had thought of something or laid down everything, opening his eyes slowly, Jang Sam-tae sent a gaze as if resolved and spoke.

“I asked who you are.”

He must not let him approach.

It was as if he knew such a thing instinctively. Knowing he did not come with good intentions, he absolutely had to make him stop in this place.

But the man did not even look at Jang Sam-tae.

He closed in to right before his nose before he knew it, and brushed past as he was.

“Wait a moment… Ugh!”

The moment Jang Sam-tae tried to extend his hand toward the man, a fist that he did not know when it moved flew in and struck his abdomen. Darkness visited to the extent that his eyes went black momentarily, and his legs gave out so he collapsed.

“Bleh!”

The man brushed past while looking at the vomiting Jang Sam-tae as if looking at a bug.

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